Going through some old photo albums and came across some fading pics from '73 when I was in my last year at MassArt as a Graphic Design major. Just kicking back in my studio apt. — and the stuff in the background triggered a nostalgia tsunami.

I'm remembering the must-have tools of the trade back then (Sellers, you know what I'm talkin' about):

LOL! I stil have my % wheel, gum erasers, pickups, and circle templates. And I only got rid of the surviving AdMarkers a/b two years ago. Still use a roller and smoothing blocks. I have to build comps now and then, but they're inkjet printouts instead of marker layouts. But flat files? You must've been a rich kid.

These modern-style flat files were bought for my first studio in 1985 from Flax Art Store. I bought two and stacked them. I think they were about $150 each. They still look great ... and I've had a place to keep all my posters and big drawings.

I see you in that picture, in your Danish Modern Recliner that only Trust Fund Art School students had … but MassArt?! ... the lounger probably was lifted from your parent's summer place in the Hamptons.

Art Center comp from 1981. I used 200pt Avante Garde Ex-Light burnished onto a gouache painting …. THERE"S ONLY ONE 'Q' ON THE SHEET! …. and at 4am with the caffeine shakes, if it transfers poorly I'd have screwed the painting I worked on for days and was due in about 5 hours.

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